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AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay (www.theregister.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

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This was always about destroying tech worker's leverage to demand a decent quality of life in exchange for their work, never about "intelligence" of any kind, and the only thing that could have stopped it was unionization.

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[–] JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 72 points 4 days ago (3 children)

You'd have to be in a tight spot to be fired and replaced to accept being rehired even at the same salary, never mind a smaller salary. I feel bad for these people. Hopefully they work a bit slower in proportion to the reduced pay.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago

Welcome to the current economy.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Many organizations rushing to cut staff in the name of AI efficiency are expected to quietly rehire those roles – often "offshore or at lower salary."

This is just coming out of a prediction from a Forrester Research report of predictions for next year. It’s not actually showing they’re hiring people back at lower pay.

[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I would imagine they are producing garbage that works today but will gum up the works in the future when they try to change it. At least for the engineers. For everyone, i would assume the accuracy of their work will be shaky at best.